Improvement in culinary apparatus



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Culinary Apparatus.

No. 222,351. Patented Dec. 9, 1879.

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R. J. GATLING. Culinary Apparatus.

No. 222,351. Patented Dec. 9,1879.

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RQJ. GATLING. Culinary Apparatus.

No. 222,35l. Patented Dec. 9', I879.

Witnesses N, FErERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFMER, WASHING! UIvITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

RIOHARD'J. GATLING, or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULINARY APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,351, dated December 9, 1879; application filed February 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD J. GATLING, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements pertaining to a Culinary Apparatus, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Figure 1 is a sideelevation of an apparatus embodying my invention. A small portion of the three posts is represented as broken awaythis for the purpose of bringing into view the ratches, hereinafter referred to. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same apparatus. Fig. 3 is a detail view, from underneath, of one of the yokes, hereinafter referred to. Fig. 4 is a detail view, showing one of the cars, hereinafter referred to, in cross-section. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are detail views of trays'made use of in connection with the apparatus.

. This apparatus is designed to facilitate the washing of dishes and cognate articles on a large scale, for cooking and maintaining the heat of foods, and for saving the grease and fats, which are often wasted in the washing of dishes by common methods.

Theletter a denotes a tank, which may be of any convenient shape, for holding the hot water. In the present instance it is rectangular, and divided by a partition, set centrally of the length, into two compartments. The water therein is heated by the injection of steam entering through steam-pipes 12, provided with suitable stop-cocks. The same pipes may be used for'the water-supply by connecting the water-pipes therewiththis, preferably, below the floor of the room.

The letters 0 denote overflow-pipes, for preventing the water from rising too high; and d, draw-01f cooks, for drawing the water entirely out of the tank. These pipes c and d are conducted to a suitable vessel or receptacle,,where the fats and grease coming off the washed articles may be collected and utilized for soap-making or other purposes.

Each compartment of the tank is provided with a car or elevator, e, the interior of which I is provided with one or more shelves, f, closely perforated, to allow the free passage. of the Water as the car is let down into or is drawn up out of the water. By preference, these shelves are of perforated-sheet metal, overlaid by wooden cross-bars g. I

It is feasible and practicable to lay the ar-' ticles to be washed directly upon these shelves; butI deem it preferable to employor'make use of trays, conveniently arranged, to hold the articles, in which the articles may be gathered and brought to the apparatus and pushed into the cars and upon the shelves therein. I show such trays 'in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and-8. They, like the shelves, have open or perforated bottoms for the egress andingress of the water.

The tray shown in Fig. 5 is a narrow one, suitable 'for packing small articles therein. The tray shown in Fig. 6 is made just large enough to fill a car from side to side, and with no partitions. The tray shown in Fig. 7 has a bottom formed of parallel rods or wires, and is divided by partitions into compartments of various sizes. The tray shown in Fig. 8 may be used the same as the tray shown'in Fig. 6, or it may be reversed and used for the wash ing of knives and forks, the blades being passed down through the small mortises, leaving the handles projecting above the mortised diaphragm, and the tray let down into the water far enough to immerse the blades, but not the handles, many cutlery handles not being designed for immersion in hot water.

It will be understood that the articles are washed by immersionsrepeated,if desiredin the hot water. To facilitate the cleansing, soaps, soda, or other proper agents may be used in the water. y

I will now describe'the means by which the cars are let down into and drawn up out of the hot water. At the top of the car there is attached a four-armed metallic yoke, h, from the center of which a strap, y, runs to and around the pulley c on shaft j, provided at one end with an operating-crank, k, and at the other end with acounterpoise, l, tobalance or help balance the weight of the car orcars. On the shaft j, near the crank, is the circular ratch m,into which meshes the pawl n, pressed thereto by spring 0, unless held therefrom by button p, whereby to hold the car suspended at any desired elevation. In case-as in the present instance-two or more cars are suspended from the same shaft, it will be desirable at times to suspend a car at a given point independently of the other cars. I have provided a means for effecting such end.

On each side of the car, and embedded in posts 1*, are ratches s. Bolts or pawls t are held by and slide in the yokes h. From them connecting-rods 0r pitmen :10 run to the crankdisk u, which is pivoted centrally of the yoke, and is provided with an operating-arm, u, by moving which the pawls may be made to engage with the ratches, and thereby hold the car suspended at a desired elevation.

The letters 1) '1] denote bench or table leaves hinged to the sides of the tank in such shape that they can be dropped down at the side of the tank, as one of them is shown, or may be, by means or" hinged supports w, adjusted and extended for use, as theother of them is shown.

I have described how this apparatus is used for washing purposes. It may also be used for cooking or for keeping foods hot. To do this the vessels containing the food are set upon one of the shelves of a car, and the car let down till the vessels are surrounded to the desired height with hot water.

I claim as my invention- I 1. The hot-water tank a, steam-pipes b, and car 0, in combination with the means for adjustin g the same, composed of the yoke h, crank-disk u, pitman w, and pawls t, with the ratches, all substantially as described.

2. The hot-water tank 0, provided with the folding leaves '0, steam-pipe b, cars 0, provided with open-bottomed shelves and furnished with trays, yokes h, straps y, shaft j, provided with ratch and pawl and counterpoise, ratches s, pawls t, pitman m, and crank-disk u, all combined to operate substantially as shown and described.

RICHARD J. GATLING.

Witnesses:

WM. E. SIMONDS, R0131. F. GAYLORD. 

